The challenges of the highly engineered casting market have created more stringent quality specifications than previously encountered for large iron castings. To meet the required quality levels, and particularly to control inclusion and oxide defects, foundries producing large iron castings must control sand entrainment and minimize molten metal turbulence in the mold.

Sometimes the difference between a crucible that consistently performs well and one that fails to meet even minimal standards may have nothing to do with the crucible itself. Rather, the performance difference may have everything to do with how the crucible is handled, operated and maintained at the foundry....More

The design and flexibility of the Vulcan Equipment System enables floor operators, unskilled in robotic programming, to use the full range of control over robotic equipment in fully manual and semi-automatic modes....More